THE PLUG MAGAZINE

Dollar Tree, Family Dollar Will Sell Off 330 Stores To Get Merger Approval

http://ift.tt/1tZJzR3 ( Steve Depolo ) A year after the sordid dollar store love triangle began and nearly seven months after Family Dol...

NYC Mailman Accused Of Stealing More Than $1M In Tax Refunds In Years-Long Scheme

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http://ift.tt/1UdPFg5 ( Mike Matney ) Is there some kind of greedy bug sweeping through the New York City mail system? Okay, probably not...

San Francisco Creates New Office To Regulate Airbnb, Other Short-Term Rentals

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http://ift.tt/1LGkS7L ( Chris Camargo ) The city of San Francisco and Airbnb have a somewhat contentious relationship, most recently invo...

Washington Woman Is First U.S. Measles Death In More Than A Decade

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http://ift.tt/1f5YN6r ( frankieleon ) Last year’s measles outbreak was dubbed the worst in the U.S. in 14 years, with 288 cases of the po...

Amazon Will Reportedly Pay Self-Published E-Book Authors $.006 Per Page Read

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http://ift.tt/1Kx02XP ( Micah Baldwin ) Last month, Amazon revealed it planned to begin a new payment system that entailed paying some au...

Indiegogo Campaign To Bail Out Greece Has Raised $1.65 Million… Only $1.77 Trillion To Go

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http://ift.tt/1emY9Av With Greece facing such a dire debt crisis that it recently shut down the country’s banking system in order to keep mo...

Google Subsidiary Apologizes For Including Concentration Camps In Mobile Game

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http://ift.tt/1LKQOJk (screenshot via Die Zeit ) It can be a good thing for game developers to include real-life sights in the unreal wor...

Lifetime Bets On Cord-Cutters Willing To Pay $3.99/Month For Streaming Library Of Schlocky TV Movies

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http://ift.tt/1LKLeXt The recent Lifetime adaptation of V.C. Andrews’ “Flowers in the Attic” — or as we call it “How Can Things Possibly Ge...

Book Subscription Service Pulling Some Romance Titles Because People Read Too Many Of Them

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http://ift.tt/1H3MgJS ( RoniLauren ) Although it feels like every subscription service wants to be like Netflix, that business model is p...

NHTSA “Tentatively Concludes” Fiat Chrysler Failed To Adequately Address Dozens Of Recalls

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http://ift.tt/1zsYQlu ( Ralph Krawczyk Jr ) Federal regulators took Fiat Chrysler to task for its leisurely pace in fixing 11 million veh...

One Of World’s Most Expensive Restaurants Caught Keeping Tips From Waiters

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http://ift.tt/1Ud2A1D The five-course tasting menu at Per Se starts at $310 per person. Celebrity chef Thomas Keller’s Per Se restaurant ...

Bubble Wrap: Now With Less Pop

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http://ift.tt/1GQWElH ( frankieleon ) We’ve all been there: You receive a fragile packaged carefully wrapped in Bubble Wrap that’s just b...

Guy Puts His Cat Through X-Ray Machine At LAX, Everyone Freaks Out

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http://ift.tt/1H3EqzI No cats here. Whew. ( JessicaKRoach ) Something important you should probably add to your check list when traveling...

FCC, TracFone Reach Settlement: Provider Will Now Unlock Customers Phones’ Like They Said They Would

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http://ift.tt/1JBx3Rb (Consumerist) Unlocking your phone is legal, and the wireless industry agreed months ago to a set of conditions tha...

Behold: There Are Magical Places In This Country Known As “Pizza Farms”

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http://ift.tt/1GRcEDA ( Coyoty ) Of all the dreams I’ve dreamed in all the nights of sleep I’ve had, never have I believed that a pizza f...

Could You Soon Be Making Purchases By Scanning Your Face? That’s The Plan At MasterCard

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http://ift.tt/1LKrYt8 ( frankieleon ) Who has time to memorize the special code or password when you could just scan your face to approve...

BP Agrees To Pay $18.7 Billion (Over 18 Years) For 2010 Gulf Disaster

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http://ift.tt/1UcJuc2 ( pdxmac ) More than five years after an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico left ele...

Sprint Partnering With UK Tech Retailer To Open Up To 500 New Stores In The U.S.

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http://ift.tt/1ztoiDA ( Misfit Photographer ) There could be a few more Sprint stores in the neighborhood soon, as the wireless company a...

Hawaii Becomes First State To Ban Plastic Bags At Grocery Stores

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http://ift.tt/1f5blev ( Taber Andrew Bain ) While some cities in the U.S. have passed laws that ban plastic bags at grocery stores, Hawai...

Report: TSA Paid Out $3M In The Last 5 Years For Lost, Stolen And Damaged Baggage

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http://ift.tt/1GQpHG6 ( afagen ) If you’ve ever wondered had your checked luggage stolen, damaged, lost or otherwise mishandled while fly...

PayPal Buys Online Money Transfer Company Xoom For $890M

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http://ift.tt/1D6oyxE ( Liz Wise ) PayPal appears to be preparing for its upcoming separation from parent company eBay later this month ...

Whole Foods CEOs Admit To “Unintentional” Overcharging

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In 2014, California regulators caught Whole Foods overcharging customers , and things have only gotten worse for the up...

Credit Card Data Breach Confirmed At Trump Hotels

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http://ift.tt/1C0kL4A The Trump Hotel Collection operates luxury properties in a dozen cities around the world. Hotel properties owned by...

What You Should Know About Rent-To-Own Retail Models: Extra Costs, High Interest Rates

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Rent-to-own stores offer cash-strapped consumers the ability to take home a new refrigerator, living room furniture se...

7-Eleven Testing Delivery Service Because Fetching Your Own Microwaved Burritos Is So 2014

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http://ift.tt/1Ktx78w ( JeepersMedia ) Sometimes the Slurpee machine is just… too… far… away. Am I right? Sure, because otherwise why wou...

Chicago Residents Now Stuck With A New 9% “Cloud Tax” On Netflix And Other Streaming Services